The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-12-29
FARM AND FIREslpE.

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Only sober help 20 care for stock.
Care well for stock during ..bliz-
Yards"
Tomato Short-cake: Make a crust
rs for blackberries, select good. ripe
meal tomatoes, cut in slices one-half inch
thick, prepare and serve same as straw
berry. using little less sugar.-Farnler-
md Manufacturer.
Poor sheep are always hard to win
ter. and there is really no necessity for
their getting poor; in fact it does not
pay. While it is not necessary that.
they should be fat, vet it is necessary
that they should DE kept in good con-
dition.
jam Trihes: Beat three eggs well,
add little salt and -four enough to-
make thick paste. Roll out and cut
into very thin cakes and fry in hot lard
Spread half of them with jam OF jelly.
and use the other half for upper crusts
or covers.-Detroit Free Press.
Egg Pudding: Half pound OF
bread crumbs, half pound of raisins.
a pound of chopped apples. four eggs.
cup of sugar. piece of butter the size
of an egg. spice. Boil in mold.
Serve with hard sauce Boston BXdget.
One hundred dollars worth of
cheese takes from the farm less than
one-seventh the fertility taken by 800
worth of grain. while 800 worth Of
butter-if the skim milk be fed on the
farm-takes nothing from the SOIL
Indianapolis Journal.
"A pretty screen for the lamp can
be made from n small fan by attaching
long piece of wire at the top. bending
it over to keep in place upon the chim-
ney; then take tiny bunch of ostrich
tips. bunch of artificial flowers. or
pressed sea moses. attach to the center
of the fan. and hold in place by bit Of
bright ribbon.-lndianaDolis Journal.
How often we see a farmer irving
to carry on more land than he can well
do; often double the number of acres
that he should have. 1t does not paw
to carry on a farm in this fashion;
better pay taxes only on what you can
proGtably till. Pat the fertilizers on
fewer acres. raise larger crops. and YOU
will find it will pay a great deal better.
.ErchGnqe.
Ribbon Cake: Two cups sugar,
one cup butter. four eggs, one cup milk.
two and one half cups flour. three tea
spoons of baking powder. Take two
thirds of this and bake in layers. and
to the third remaining add one table,
spoon molaSses, one cup chopped rails
Ins. one-half cup currants. one piece
ritron chopped fine; teaspoon each of
cloves and nutmeg. Put the
layers together with jelly or thin FROST
Budget
-Decoying destructive insects bv the
light of lamps is often recommended bv
superficial writers. The light more
frequently entraps those which are en-
irely harmless, or such rs are doing
he cultivator Il positive benefit by at
acking or devouring his enemies.
Prof. ClaypOle, of Ohio, in a paper read
before the chronological society of On
ariO, says those insects whicE are most
.nnoying are not attracted by light
he mosquito. for example. having no
pecial love for lampS.--Troy Times.
Red ants may be destroyed. ac-
ordin% to one housekeeper, by trap
ing them. She would smear a plate
nth beans and set it on the shelf with
smearod tooth-pick laid from the
helf TO the edge of the plate. and in
hort time it would be brown. Then
he would quickly set it in hot oven,
i else in the sink and turn boiling
Tater on it. Sometimes she uses scraps
f meat or fresh meat bones. only one
time Cor they scatter). and in an
oar it would be brown. not even the
one showing through them. She ex-
3rminated all.